End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/21/2013)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week June 17 - 23, 2013:

• Final part of Gill Cleeren's series on background processing in Windows 8
• New article: 'Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Win as one with Share contracts'
• 25+ fresh new stories by valued bloggers and community sites

Final part of Gill Cleeren's series on background processing in Windows 8

This week we published the last article from Gill Cleeren's series 'Background processing in Windows 8'.  In this final part, the author explores how to create Windows 8 apps that play audio in the background.

Read it here:

• Background processing in Windows 8: Part 6: Playing audio in the background

All other articles from this series:

• Part 1: How Windows 8 applications execute
• Part 2: Allowing Windows 8 applications to execute in the background
• Part 3: Lock screen applications
• Part 4: more lock screen apps
• Part 5: Background transfers in Windows 8

Now that the series is finished, we'll also convert it into an ebook. Stay tuned!

New article: 'Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Win as one with Share contracts'

A while ago, Andrea Boschin launched a 6-part article series titled 'Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML'. We also released this series as an ebook (grab it here!).

Now Andrea starts a second part of this series, read the next article here:

• Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Win as one with Share contracts

See the planned Table of Contents for the series:

• Win as one with Share contracts
• Add a search to your app
• Handle settings
• Work with style (css vs xaml)
• Application bars, flyouts an other amenities
• Animations and transitions
• Patterns to organize your UI tier #1 (xaml)
• Patterns to organize your UI tier #2 (html)

25+ fresh new stories by valued bloggers and community sites

Top 5:

• 10 Questions that I Keep Hearing about Windows Phone 8 Beta Apps
• Getting started with Web Requests & JSON in Windows Phone
• Windows Store apps made easy with Prism and Prism project templates
• Data Storage for Windows Store Apps - a Walkthrough
• Advanced Windows Phone 8 in easy steps: Speech

All other news we published:

Monday (June 17th, 2013)

• Renewing a Windows Phone developer subscription with an MSDN token
• Adding Speech Functionality to your Windows Phone 8 App
• Windows Store - Setting Lock Screen Background by URL and App Image
• Introduction To Data Binding for Windows and Windows Phone (part 2)

Tuesday (June 18th, 2013)

• Launching a Context Menu From Code
• Inside Windows Phone - Use Location and Mapping in your Apps
• Say what! Speech recognition gets faster, more accurate on Windows Phone

Wednesday (June 19th, 2013)

• Required pubCenter Update for Microsoft Ad Units
• Comparing 3rd party Windows Phone control sets
• Meet RadCalendar for Windows 8 XAML
• Run your Windows Phone 8 app on two emulators simultaneously
• Introduction to Maps for Windows Phone 8

Thursday (June 20th, 2013)

• Windows 8 Store Apps: Creating Chart UI using 2D Graphics with C# and XAML
• How to integrate Windows Phone Wallet in your App
• Windows 8 and Prism: Migrating a Simple Example
• Automating the Windows Map App
• Windows Phone Toolkit June 2013 update – summary

Friday (June 21st, 2013)

• Calculating Distance From 2 GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone 8
• Sync Framework With SQLite for Windows Store Apps (WinRT) and Windows Phone 8
• Android to Windows Phone 8: Connect to the network
• Advertising is a key monetization option for app developers
• Partner with a designer to sharpen your design skills – See the magic happen

Enjoy your weekend and return at SilverlightShow on Monday for a whole new week full of exciting news and content!